Excellent ideas in this article!
They were more interested in the set—the ordering of all of the backdrops, furniture and architecture on the stage with the purposes of the play in mind. They answered the question, “How did the world begin?” by talking about God’s setting the stage more than his building of the stage (though, of course, he did that too!).
Not so sure about the parenthetical part but I’m not so sure any nuts and bolts account really belongs here anyhow. Science can follow that story back as far as it may and religion can tell the story about why we should care (although more poetically than as prose).